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Show IlJLTRY RAISING 1 AND EGG PRODUCTION , that The Inler-Mountaln ,,) Kan hman goes Into a "of ho m ,h" low" '"", ,h,r r" y raising Is rnr- vvitlvt " 1'iv.Mil-n f ..npeJlt v l'l'' the "rl,cl , tritof H dl ,f,,n , yard n li the oon. u.n I Invited .le. cnthf ( n whe.e, sometimes , snei hin ore I manl- U poultrs raisins; for broiler lublen sof certain peilods In I mtrket may largely deter- , but time for hatching, but producers ft point ' difference II,. Intern ountam v alles and f Maw ihould bn not-d ihtfora r the favorable con- f.near'ysp Ins nnd Into oil- bring th Wrl to maturity rmlne Hie Mm for n euccess- A winter egos bilnp a price t th sm n r output, largo -n In wlnt r Is hldhlj deslr- ! (or ulnl r rets wo have hid it bjcc J Horn the chick front about prll " 111 to tho of Vns One brood that lt Mr o ut March SHh be. .it i f AurusI After I fci (B6-' the moulted mil ! not In ondltlon to otk until utter the Mnj birds d down to steads builness UMifb n piecnted hj un. r and h by partial ntarvn- led th growth However It i no h ken fancier ould ""BBtopt, even If It ero attended JBrltk of prmanent Injurs to "fct mlitak usually made by k'Bniloral poultrs ral'rrs is the '"rub stock Let the hen have fKiutt of b'lnB well born, nnd "'Bral Inlrodu e new blood Into riorajK neri scar or recond ear ''jTliu, can be cheaply done by OTB'ith lummer a setting of eggs "Bfcroiihrjrcd fowls and raising ""jW rooster If one should '?B Inltfnrlu, to ralo only ono v"Brom the setting he coubl he "'."h dozen best henn and all JJ IfB needed for one s ow u use for ffB trrtueed We have often TB"" ,hal ha1 b"'n kPPt me ""th th same flock, and heard JBk. lh plagued hens ent '"iioff twl p ovei every year product e have bad splendid lWB til birds rror -bred and for '""m HI i believe tint the .-iB1 Pr0l,u nwre esgs than the ..i- One thould never use a .B " ln' Pro hut of a cros. '""' a thrrouehhrc 1 We hnve JB'I) l" 'he modern fad that "J'' flo k nf ihr looHtei H inn "Jf!ny Our sxmpalh) under JrtK 'n I with the hen. ""It" be t te lilts In cb slJrK.'1 ?!' 'h" hen r been mriB1"1 by " rej 'ruble number I ii" m3' " MiB'irV'""" nn ""t l that jUtjB. ?, If'lr Never feed jour MiiM"'1 lh" h"t hni bed nre w. litmr"' nl1 1' ii'uallj takes ritK"."" ? r""ns lo hatch si. m,'"?1' '"-' lul "'!' h'ns irtMf1l" wh i ' d this vva wo ifotiK' ,,. '" hl k Irom the dls-I'Bku"11..'1""11 dls-I'Bku"11..'1""11 "" rt few lniW,Jlkt,n llf w '""r must be plni'B' l"?Jn ' 'ha biood Is re. rtnB,2,Yi. ' ' home rnlsei '"B... "1 ' nr """nd day, imtn. ',y 1 ' and our sue (rtSK""1 ,h ' oull be desire 1. b,7 ', S""1' sweet bread. culB,llfc '; i It Is usually nuTH !. '"'le This may be jol. WK...PrM ' '" l l,lf,r Just rum-,lw rum-,lw r? i"-''l Afl.i four "''-y Tw " irniiu will lie ' H in .1 '' r ' most ri- 5?lMmi". ho "" ' dlmilct Is the 'l!Bk ' 'tnnnnly mil,,!, iadl'? ""'-"on ways and 'i'rlS- tta,nn .l,"""" nni' '' ',?- i "' '""K new mn be JiBililr . ' " "n"Ml11 '"" ."SeWlnt ' 5R l'rn'l" "on. "sp"" nvH1 dm?m ' ,h? " thins .Wn.r2 h,M""",lh ""'' f,''"l tbTesHn 'Urn, i, . '"" "rp ',lli",rt jlBl b .r.'i JP'7 "lBh"' olVB'llieni. hi n"'lt Place "ci , h '.hV r""f Is low. Hi1 "r"',ln,t"" lne tklMf lihn. ' "" r"refully 'Brh, an'",,,""'"""" '"'l ,orHnr ,'" ' "d Ten from nKHilmn tr , '"''' nui' " ttiixB1 r ve- i "nueiM m nW '' ,1 ,h ' ! within the iil'BlliltM, IT '""Imoin III gfl ark i , ,"" nn' Mioepg is 1B -, l,' n" meal, (lax. diOB Wi vi '."' "imn'iiW .JH"I It i, . ' '""I 'hnt milk ''flB ''nri.hin f'lnrril I lie nl'r?n hri" makes tl,; ' miM?"" ir ...i . In ,h0 "Inter tit By be ,,'" "n. P'ellntTB well !.. 'Int. fonaV "' " A" "n r imm th(."j L ' ls nnex.elled .M!,h,lp dTninJ 1" ,U"1 k'"" "" '"1"lM',I,I" iiT"' "n,l the ' V"'i h, r" ,nn n"rn. ', " a?i i5 ,n,lnn,,I h" r"u2B 'o n,i . 1lf nf iK-nl nt ;l"if" r" H' usually fHlr " n , .',0,k nni elo '"filB. a'"1 "Unlf'i """AH1' '"n f ,h" "" ,,olnS ""SB (r I r , ? "mount and e,!.!rJB . "I ll p nount of "IftH1 k" , . ,n,nmon cal-lrif'h,t, cal-lrif'h,t, " 'If a pencil tn 'I'M ,, K l0,vn the niim- ."P and f1,,"!Vrr",f mntter yolH " i f !ho" 'w the .' , "" 'la, month I Bjonrro V.m ",,,, find ii "' V,"""1, he Inst rhlli''W,r y,i fl a , ,i:.nn', f1"" to f K Ton mnu."l,,t,,,h N B15 vork. V u. shuld then '" """J "II of the old Inferior stock cleaned out Not all chicken rnlsci-s realize the Importance of plenty of fioh water both winter nnd summer Ithout It ou tan t at-tllll at-tllll succcus The fcedlnp 't condition powder, red pel pei, eti to make hens la I detestable de-testable Iheie Is Just about as much sense In feeding tho old mare re 1 pep per to make her have a colt In winter S II I.IX31IOKK. Cn.ro of Young Chickens, HiitchlnK time ls here The filthrul hen and the seemingly Intelligent ma. chine nre busy turning; out the jouns chicks nnd ducks Your work ls .only begun when they nre through more intention and urentei lare la now neccssars, If ou are to succeed, than Is tequlred during Incubation Then nnlurt vvus at work, now hum in hands must take It up wheie nature left off A few facts leirned by experience, ex-perience, may be helpful lo some one Your jounR ducki nnd chicks need care must inve It or ou will lose many If with the hen take them from the nest, dust the hen thoroughly with Rood Insect powdei If jou use grease, use opirlngls. , Grease will kill llttln chickens I'lice them ln a gnol coop, where thej will hJve room It muu be to made that It will keep them sheltered from oold anj keep them dri Keep tho coops clean Dampness and filth nre the chief causes of death In little chicks and ducks Po not feed anjthln to them for thirty six to fort-etRht hours Ni-ture Ni-ture has supplied the feed for this time from the ckb before they left It tllve them some grit for the first meal They need teeth before they begin to eat. Thej cannot take their food In soups Keep such grit alwjjs where they can get Is They must alwais have teeth Do not forget this fact Neglect of this causes the death of mau joung chicks Now feed them sparingly on cracker or dry bread crumbs Olve them a little sweet milk to drink. Do not give them sour milk until several weeks old Keep cool, flesh water al-waa al-waa before them Feed them ln troughs so arranged thit they cannot get Into the feed with their feet To make n serviceable but cheip drinking. fountain, buy tin pant about live or six Inches In diameter ind three-fourths of an In.h deep Take a common quart tin fruit can, piimh a few little holes through thefddes one-half one-half Inch from tho open or top end, rill the cm with water put pan on ran and turn the combination upside down The water will fill the pan, but the lilt!" i hicks cannot get Into It and It vll not run over Dq not allow your little ducks In the tv iter until they are feathered out. The down on their bo lies will get wet nnd thill them and kill them Hnlse them on dry lind After a few djjs, feed them some oatmeil, then a llltlo cracked wheat, If jnu have It NOw buy Home beef meal and bone meal Tor our chickens tike two parts of cornnic.il one part ?hotts, one part wheat bran (fine) and mix well Add to this about one fourth of hulk In beef meal nnd simo of bone meal Mix well Hike Into a pone t'rumb this up to jour rhlrkenn as much n they will eat up clein, no more Kor the llttlo duck the tame, except this Exchange plices between the cornmeal and wheit bran The nung fowl must grow and keep henlthv nnd Igor-run Igor-run Teed this way for eight weeks Then glv e lhe chicks chnngo i art of the time with cracked corn nnd whole wheat From this tlmo feed the ducks one h llf wheat bran and one half corn-meal, corn-meal, with beef scraps moistened with water or sweet milk I.ook out for lice nlwaji If you have u sleepy chick, It ls a lousy chick. Kill the lice or they will kill the chick If you rnlse jour stuff In a brooder mind thshe same rules In addition to these, do not let the llltlo things get too hot or too told Il this process you will have well matured stock at an early age i: T. Dilley In Ohio I'ar- Whltes vs. Colored Chickens. Thli subject ls claiming wile attention atten-tion all over the country where there Is nn Interest In poultry, and we believe that the white plumage man la gaining ground constuntlj. writes Mrs I) II. Johns In I'miltry ToplcH. We remember remem-ber th-it n few years i-lnce tho country wns swept with a powerful w ie of popularity foi the bancd I'lymouth llqA. which wo admit li et a ery popular breed but wn bellevo and have figure nnd facts tn ronllrm our belief that the while Plymouth Itock Is lon-Btnntly lon-Btnntly taking the lead over the barred, Thej possess nil the good prints of the billed, with the ndded advantage of beauty "f whltn pluimge and as better egg produieis One fact pointing to their Increasing popularity Is tho enor-mniiM enor-mniiM prices now being paid for good breeding stock. Tor exnmple. a pen of seven blids hold for Jinn This was double the largest sum paid ror this number of fowls, and many other bieedeis uro silling their slock In thli bleed nt f nicy pries Then of the Wjandotte family there ar several different branches, but we see tho whltn Wyandotte outstr pp ng the othfis In thi mm for popularity, anil an a genernl purpose fowl they have a strong hold Tho mine, may bo sail of the Aelntlo breeds In the t'ochln family the white Cochins for roiro onrs were n very weak class, hut mo now mining to the finnt Br urn l-lj l-lj and what wonder, great " hit'" beau- lies nnd they i sui h quantities of rge brown eggs in the coll weather, for their liesvv plumage prejents the cold from chilling them as It doe s other breeds, and to with the lrdl Ivng-ahan Ivng-ahan nh the whllo Is a ronipnia. , vely nev" breed It Is a mud. sught nfter breed, nnd so "" LRhorns. Javas. Mlnnrcas (time and others People, are Vvorlng the white PltimiuW It Is more beautiful makes a , mh nicer carcass when dreseed and, not the list fact, Is much heavlei diessed, Crop-Bound Turkeys. In the spring wliep turkeys begin to roam the fields there will occasions illy be one get ci op-bound bj eating Ion., dri rraw. roots or some 'ubHance which they cnnot digest. nnd w hlch packs In their crops. Presenting any food from passing down, and i th ll d It; If the crop i full 1(1 naro' " breath sour nnd erj offensive, sou imV bVure "ier '" "i'"' trouble, but ir round before their ejstem gets dc range I jou can usuall) cure them by taking a sharp knlre open a place In the cr-'p and take out all foal, wash out with warm water and sew up the wound, then keep on soft food for a few ilas sivs the Itecord The best preventive of all disease, Including In-cluding crop bound. Is plent of crushed njstci shells! keep It before them nil the time AMth feed so n iree and high-priced It la not llkclv our turkejs will be too fat this spring fom cooked oats and bran scnldtd make a erj good vuletj of tood for all breeding stock. White Errs the Bent. While In Logan the other day Jlr. Soren llnnsen discoursed Interestlnglj to our lipresontatlve on the subjeit nf egg produi Hon He stales thnt white eggs are worth nlmost double as much as buff or othei colors A box of white eggs will he snippet up readily nt n heavy advance In price whereis huff eggs, the product of Wjandotte and like bneds of chickens, will lie and spoil The best egg producer to fnr ns color Is concerned Is a cross between the Leghorn nnd Minorca or Spanish Their eggs ore white and even In size nnd they are constant lajers Logan Nation Our Farming Industry. Joseph, son nf Jacob had to warehouse ware-house a good deal of wheat In thi seven fat years to carry the IJgjptlans through the seven lean ones Th American farmers produced enouih In IRIS to make loseph s little stock look like a pea In n tub If It had all been piled In form on the pran of Olzeh It would have made nine pjramlds the size of the pjramlds of fheops, and with the surplus another could have been reared four fifths as large. That was the biggest American wheat crop ever recorded It amounted to 675 14? -705 bushels, rrown on U "45 278 acrea of land Next year the jleld was lighter and the Americans only turned off seven and nine tenths pjramlds of wheat In 1900 they even fell short of that, producing only a paltry seven and a half pyramids. Still, that would have been a comfortnble addition to Josephs rtock, and considering that It was grown on a smaller acreage thin the crop of ISOa was a rather creditable cred-itable performance 'lhe deficiency was mnde up with a 2000.100000 corn crop and J210 000 000 bushfls of potatoes pota-toes There was considerable ado over the Incrensc of the standing army to 100,-000 100,-000 men If ever! man In such an army were a Good fast milker, and worked nt It for ten hours a daj-, the whole force could n t milk more than one-third of the rows that ore now belne milked In this country pot to speak of the goats And If they tould milk them all, and If they did and It they milked them Into the Chicago dralnare canal, beginning with It en-tlrelj en-tlrelj emptj, they tould milk It bank-ful bank-ful In nbout two weeks If all the hens In this country were to be consolidated, like Fome of our other manufacturing establishments. Into one hen, and that hen were to lay ait egg with the cubic contents of nil the eggs laid dally on American soil, thnt egg would be ns big us well. It would be a crj large egg. A chick hatched from It ought tn be nble to peek wheat off the dome of tho National Na-tional Capitol In 1890 there were 258 -(171,125 chickens In the countrj-, nnd during the jear Ml 722 916 dozen eggs were produced nnd sold When Mr Heed deprecated a billion-dollar billion-dollar Congress somebody letorted that It was a bllllon-dollar countrj. It Is The millions period Is no longer adequate ad-equate to express the magnlture of our manufactures our trusts, our fortunes and our farming Industrj. Tbe acreage of American farms In lOCO was greater than tho combined acies of I ranee, Germany, Austria, Italy nnd the lltltlah Isles The value of their realty wns J13 27 p 252 619, and the tools and Implements on them rep- esented an outlaj of nearly half a billion more They produced over Jj M0 000 000 worth of food and raw mateilal The value of their oipoits ln 1899 was J792SH.733. or mom than . - .-i... nf ttiA driHrn dvnnrtH of the countrj by W2.0M000 lhe growth of this Induslrj h id the most primitive beginnings, nnd has gone forward In the face of the most dls. cnurnglng lclssltud- The Airerlcnn of the revolutionary nerlod wns nil extremely poor fnimer. Looking back on his methods ami his work, It Is hard to say which were the more crude, his Implements or his lie' used a wooden plough: he was afraid on Iron one would 'poison the soil" Ho had not jet learned tint glanders were contagious, nnl would work and stable healthy stoek alongside along-side of stock affected bj It, and won. iler what there was In the all soil or climate that carried them off He dldn t understand the use of fertilizers, and Instrnd of spreading his barnyard manure on his fields, ho let It accumu-lite accumu-lite around his ham until the up. Pioaches were Impassable Then he dug tho bam out and moved It. In-suid In-suid of rotating trops to save his soil he plinled according to the phases of the moon There were few sheep In the country, and other like stock was poor and seantj In Virginia the be. lief prevailed that It would kill eows to house nnd milk them In the winter. Transportation was poor, nnd continued con-tinued bo for a long time Tho roads could not hsm been wome Markets wero scattered and far between. Lach farm attempted to be self-sustaining In ns large a degree as polble hat the farmer couldn t grow or his wife make they went without Wasteful methods of tillage eventually exhaust, ed a soil originally rich, and In the reign of Andrew !arson agriculture hnd fallen Into ruch.an alarming state nf neglect and lneitltlency that the Government had to come to Its re Uef Through the cflorts of Henry L nilsvvorth C'oinml-iloner of Patents, a bureau was ertobllshed In the patent office which developed Into the Department De-partment of. Agriculture ny aid of that department principals- farming has been made a science Indiana tanner |